Tungl

Bedeutung des altnordischen Wortes "tungl"

Wie im Cleasby & Vigfusson Altnordisch-Englisch Wörterbuch definiert:

Das altnordische Wort tungl kann bedeuten:tungl

tungl

n. [Goth. tuggl in a gloss, to Gal. iv. 9; A. S. tungol; Hel. tungal; O. H. G. zungal; Swed. tungel; cp. also tingl]:—prop. a luminary (= Lat. sidus), which sense remains in the compd himin-tungl; in Icel. prose, ancient as well as modern, this word has altogether superseded the word ‘máni,’ which is only poetical.

tungl

II. the moon (= Swed. tungel), Nj. 118, Grett. 114, Rb. 108, SkS. 627, Al. 172; nýtt tungl, fullt tungl, Icel. Almanack (cp. the words ný and nið), passim: phrases, tunglið veðr í skýjum, the moon wades in clouds: for poët. usage, enni-tungl, tungl brá, = the eyes, etc., see Lex. poët. ☞ No word in the language rhymes with tungl, hence the tale of the man capping verses with the devil, Maurer Volksagen. The ancients called the full moon the ‘new moon,’ ný (q. v.), but used nið (q. v.) = no moon for the new moon; the modern phrase ‘new moon’ (nýtt tungl), = the young moon, is derived from the Latin.

tungl

B. COMPDS: tunglaldr, tunglaukan, tunglár, tunglfyllr, tunglganga, tunglhlaup, tunglhoppan, tunglkváma, tunglsljós, tunglmein, tunglsjúkr, tunglskin, tunglsýki, tungltal, tungltalsöld, tungltíð, tungltími, tunglæði, tunglærr, tunglöld.

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